Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (新しい歴史教科書をつくる会) is a group founded in 1997 to promote a more sympathetic view of Japanese history. The group was responsible for authoring one of the 2005 Japanese textbooks by Fuso Publishing Inc. (扶桑社), which was the target of criticism by China and South Korea for not including full accounts or downplaying of wartime activities of the Japanese during World War II, including the referring Nanjing Massacre as Nanjing Incident and deleting the term comfort women (females forced into prostitution for the Japanese army). Furthermore, it highlighted Japan's claims to disputed lands with neighbouring countries like Korea and China.

An April 16, 2005 news article by Sankei reports that the society will be uploading Korean and Chinese translations of the textbook in question on their homepage within a week, so demostraters can know what they are protesting about. Japan Policy Institute (日本政策研究センター, different from JPRI, based in California) has published a pamphlet "Questionable points of Chinese and Korean textbooks" (non-official translation) (ここがおかしい中国・韓国歴史教科書). The institute has accused the neighbor states' textbooks of containing anti-Japanese propaganda, and encouraged people to compare the textbooks.

See also

• Education in Japan
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• Japan Teachers Union
• Japanese Communist Party
• Japanese nationalism
• List of Japanese War Atrocities
• Korean-Japanese disputes
• Anti-Japan government textbook demonstrations in China

External links

Pages in English

• ERIC Digest summary
• Japan Times article - April 6, 2005
• CNN.com article

Pages in Japanese

• Official website
• Fuso Publishing Inc. - Homepage of the textbook's publisher.
• Sankei Web news article - April 16, 2005